IPFS Cluster provides data orchestration across a swarm of IPFS daemons by allocating, replicating and tracking a global pinset distributed among multiple peers. IPFS has given the users the power of content-addressed storage. The permanent web requires, however, a data redundancy and availability solution that does not compromise on the distributed nature of the IPFS Network. IPFS Cluster is a distributed application that works as a sidecar to IPFS peers, maintaining a global cluster pinset and intelligently allocating its items to the IPFS peers. IPFS Cluster powers large IPFS storage services like nft.storage and web3.storage.
Features
- Automated data availability and redundancy on IPFS
- An easy to run application
- Handle replication of millions of pins to hundreds of IPFS daemons in a “fire & forget” fashion
- Ingest pins at scale
- Clever prioritization
- Balanced allocation
